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Hmmm most of those in other countries complain about the high price of gas in terms of the taxes they pay on that gallon. Taxes don't really count- complain to your governments about the taxes.
Here according to the newspaper article, on a $3.50 gallon, only 18% is federal, state and local taxes.
One third of that $3.50 is refining and sales, on which the oil companies here are making around 40 billion dollars a year in profits.
Gas is already at $4.00+ here and will increase as summer goes on. I do believe them when they say gas could be $6.00/ gal by years end.
We will have gone from about $3.00 to $6.00 in about a year!
smile and grit your teeth and buy stock in oil companies if you can afford it!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
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[/i]So gas/petrol is that cheap in the US. Gas in Australia has just gone up to approximately US$6.90 per gallon.
My car does 45mpg and it still hurts! [/i]
You are aware that the US gallon is smaller than the Imperial gallon, aren't you?
The Imperial gallon is 1.2 US gallons.
We should all convert to the metric system. A liter is a liter anywhere.
A US gallon = 3.785 liters.
An Imperial gallon = 4.546 liters.
Andre
I purchased a 20 horse lawn tractor the other day and finished the acre in about 40 minutes. The gas used was less than 1/4 gallon and probably less than that used by two push mowers on the same job. Ive enough gas in that two gallon tank for 3-4 more cuttings over the next two months or more depending on weather.
How is everyone doing with thier gas accessories? Are you letting your land grow? Or cutting it?
andrechapelon wrote:[/i]So gas/petrol is that cheap in the US. Gas in Australia has just gone up to approximately US$6.90 per gallon.My car does 45mpg and it still hurts! [/i]You are aware that the US gallon is smaller than the Imperial gallon, aren't you?The Imperial gallon is 1.2 US gallons.We should all convert to the metric system. A liter is a liter anywhere. A US gallon = 3.785 liters.An Imperial gallon = 4.546 liters.Andre
Gas around here is $6.08 a gallon. In Canada, the metric system is costing the consumer money: when first adopted, the containers for goods remained the same, with the capacity expressed in litres. When all of the old Imperial-sized containers were used-up, we got metric-sized containers. An Imperial gallon of paint became first 4.54 litres of paint, then 4 litres of paint. With the advent of the so-called "free trade" pact (NAFTA), that 4 litre container mysteriously became a 3.785 litre container. All the while, the price of the commodity continued to increase as it would have had the container remained unchanged. In other words, no drop in price to reflect the smaller quantity of product. The shift to the so-called "world standard" of metric measurement has left us with measurements expressed in fractions of metric units, but equivalent to American measurements. What a step forward!
Wayne
Actually, in some ways, it may be adding to hobby time for me. Instead of doing several little trips here and there, I plan to do all my errands in one trip, leaving me some time at home to work on the layout. NIcest thing is that the layout is in my cool, dry cellar and its 90 outside at the moment - what am I doing at the computer?
My folks used to run a small general store in a small southern VT town, sold gas for $0.199/gal, that's about 25 gallons for $5.00, those were the days.
Looks like a storm brewing, Sox game off the dish due to interference, wife just came in, thunder in distance coming this way. Time to go to the cellar, turn on the radio and work on the layout in the COOLNESS down there.
Later,
Last Chance wrote: How is everyone doing with thier gas accessories? Are you letting your land grow? Or cutting it?
No fertilizer or water anymore, and cutting it shorter than normal.
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I've been cutting down on my trips to the not-so-local hobby stores. It's about a 30-minute drive to the two closest, when the infamous Boston traffic is not in effect. They were close to where I worked, so I would occasionally head down to either Hobby Emporium or Maine Trains after work (maybe 2 times a month). I also had to budget trains against my car budget: I've been upgrading my Subaru Impreza little-by-little to make it better at autocross racing and to prepare it for an eventual STi engine swap.
ArtOfRuin wrote: I've been cutting down on my trips to the not-so-local hobby stores. It's about a 30-minute drive to the two closest, when the infamous Boston traffic is not in effect. They were close to where I worked, so I would occasionally head down to either Hobby Emporium or Maine Trains after work (maybe 2 times a month). I also had to budget trains against my car budget: I've been upgrading my Subaru Impreza little-by-little to make it better at autocross racing and to prepare it for an eventual STi engine swap. Unfortunatly, I won't be spending any money on either for the time being- I lost my job yesterday. Company wouldn't pick up my contract. If the temp agency can't find me something comparable tomorrow, well, I won't be modeling or racing anytime soon; just job-hunting.
Unfortunatly, I won't be spending any money on either for the time being- I lost my job yesterday. Company wouldn't pick up my contract. If the temp agency can't find me something comparable tomorrow, well, I won't be modeling or racing anytime soon; just job-hunting.
Sorry to hear that, man.
-G
kenkal wrote:Hope this post stops the e-mail replies. I'm getting buried with these things.
No, you have to click the "Notify" button at the top of the thread to turn off notification.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
Well, everything seems to be cutting into my hobby anymore.
Last year I adopted two cats. The first has heart problems and is on medicine twice a day and has been going to the local animal hospital several times for echocardiograms to see how he's progressing. Fortunately, his medicine is cheap, and the new medicine that he started this past weekend should be making things better since his original medicine basically stabilized things. My other cat started getting sick a week after I got him home, and that took a couple medicines and special food to clear up.
This past March, my Jeep was rearended at a red light on my way to work because some idiot decided that talking on his cell phone was more important than watching the road. About three weeks after that, some local kids playing on a dirt pile across the drive from my townhouse shattered the back window of my Jeep with a rock.
Anymore, I'm just living paycheck to paycheck, paying attention to what bills and expenses that I have coming up and planning around that. While gas prices are a factor in my spending, it's not everything.
Last fall was the last trip to the hobby store that I've made. Right now, I can't afford to get more of what I need to get to do all of the scenery on my layout. What I have been doing is focusing on smaller projects that I can do to at least be getting some work done. Plus, I have trains going and have been working on the operations side of the layout and getting that planned out.
As far as railfanning goes, I haven't gone out railfanning since 2004 since it always seems like something comes up, the weather doesn't cooperate, etc. Hopefully, I'll be able to take a Saturday or two this summer to go to Marion, Fostoria, or even Bellevue.
Kevin
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